The issue is, the world can't be operated in a "this is what you want? We'll warn you that it's going to forget you up worse in the long run, but if its what you want.." fashion. We can't demonstrate that the price of Nikes will double, half the factories will shut down, and 1/4 of all Nikes employees will be fired if you raise the minimum wage because Nikes aren't being produced in America anymore. Nike pays workers pennies per hour to make their shoes. Any all-american production company can't keep up, because Nike can at any given time hire ten or more employees for the one employee in America. The workers with raised wages then experience no increase in cost, but end up losing their jobs to Chinese nationals. The only industry not affected by this is the domestic service industry, like restaurants. The last thing we want is to send more work to other countries.
